Hd Ride Planner
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From: Windwardside, Saba N.A.
I do as gwellis describes on a Mac and have no problems.
One thing I notice is HD Ride Planner allows lots of "locations" but only twenty "waypoints". As some of my rides are 500+ miles those routes have lots of waypoints. Ride Planner simply starts removing waypoints leaving the route as plotted. Not a big deal just interesting. My software is all up to date, both Boom and Naviextras.
ETA I use two "locations", one at the start and one at the end, with waypoints at strategic places between those two locations.
I'm going to try Tyre and see how it compares.
One thing I notice is HD Ride Planner allows lots of "locations" but only twenty "waypoints". As some of my rides are 500+ miles those routes have lots of waypoints. Ride Planner simply starts removing waypoints leaving the route as plotted. Not a big deal just interesting. My software is all up to date, both Boom and Naviextras.
ETA I use two "locations", one at the start and one at the end, with waypoints at strategic places between those two locations.
I'm going to try Tyre and see how it compares.
Last edited by Sierra977; Feb 14, 2016 at 03:04 PM.
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Joined: May 2007
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From: Portland, OR
For a Mac, to save your route, click save, then choose manually save if you're copying to the thumb drive. Save as gpx file. It will be in your down loads file. Drag and drop onto your thumb drive.
I really like Ride Planner now. It just take a little trial and error to figure it all out.
I really like Ride Planner now. It just take a little trial and error to figure it all out.
Cruiser
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: North Carolina
I figured out that you have to have a separate log in for Ride Planner. So I worked through it and created 11 separate day trips to make up my 15 day journey. I save, or thought I'd saved each segment naming them by day 01 through 15. After I was all finished, or so I thought, on 05 and 15 were saved under "saved roads" I hate to go back and recreate all the other segments, but if I'm gonna use the Ride Planner for this trip, I have no choice.
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From: Utah
I figured out that you have to have a separate log in for Ride Planner. So I worked through it and created 11 separate day trips to make up my 15 day journey. I save, or thought I'd saved each segment naming them by day 01 through 15. After I was all finished, or so I thought, on 05 and 15 were saved under "saved roads" I hate to go back and recreate all the other segments, but if I'm gonna use the Ride Planner for this trip, I have no choice.
Good Luck
Cruiser
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: North Carolina
Thanks for the tip....I'm ready to try it out. H-D Ride Planner will only let me save 3 "roads" then it starts over writing each subsequent to the previous save. It doesn't give me an option to save anywhere else. I can email them to myself I suppose, but this seems like too much hassle just to get Best Western Hotel locations.
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From: Lake Orion, MI
bigwave95 - what do you mean - Ride Planner will only let you save 3 roads? I usually do all of my ride plans in HD Ride Planner. Can save all of my trips - and I usually use waypoints and locations to make my plans.
How are you saving "roads"
How are you saving "roads"
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From: Windwardside, Saba N.A.
For a Mac, to save your route, click save, then choose manually save if you're copying to the thumb drive. Save as gpx file. It will be in your down loads file. Drag and drop onto your thumb drive.
I really like Ride Planner now. It just take a little trial and error to figure it all out.
I really like Ride Planner now. It just take a little trial and error to figure it all out.
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Cruiser
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 155
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From: North Carolina
Upper right on the screen has "saved roads" that's what I mean. It took me a while but I was able to save 5 segments and accomplish what I was trying to do. I don't want to go back and make the effort to save one for each day of the trip.
Cruiser
Joined: Aug 2011
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From: East Iowa
Because whenever these threads come up, everyone recomends them, I have done my damn'dest to try using both BaseCamp and Tyre, both of which made me feel like a mental midget, even though I generally consider myself to be an above average computer user.
In between my bouts with BaseCamp and Tyre, I have been a successful Ride Planner user for 5 years or so, and even at that I just realized/learned something that I may have been doing wrong from this thread.
I had been using standard automotive Garmin units up until trading into an Infotainment system this year, which requires re-learning a few tricks.
In between my bouts with BaseCamp and Tyre, I have been a successful Ride Planner user for 5 years or so, and even at that I just realized/learned something that I may have been doing wrong from this thread.
I had been using standard automotive Garmin units up until trading into an Infotainment system this year, which requires re-learning a few tricks.